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An Analysis Of Kafka's Existential Ethics

Posted on:2018-06-19Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:R YeFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330515952232Subject:Ethics
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Kafka as a pioneer of the modernist literature and existentialism,the novel has broken the traditional literature and art,and beyond the traditional art.Turing the emphasis from common narrative to existance concerning,He puts his life survival experience into his literary works,which by using a individual image with week,loneliness and fearness,he present philosophy thinking of the human existance from literature and sense life difficulties of modern people.His work is actually a process of humanity discoverying,understanding and exhibiting.Kafka's novels use the mordren realism to discribe tthe existence of human beings and the absurdity of life.His novels not only focus on self exploration,but also focus on individual existence.In the end,by using the characters in the novel,Kafka alerts readers to avoid into such a predicament.This paper is based on a common concern point of human from literaturn and philosophy,in order to examine the contents of Kafka's novels and its theme,to explore the existential pioneer,existentialism,and its ideology reflects the modern dilemma of human existence and significance.This article will analyze Kafka's existentialism philosophythinking from six parts.The first chapter is a brief review of the significance and current research situation of Kafka's existentialism.The second chapter is about the background of Kafka's existentialism.We believe that the decline of the Austro Hungarian Empire,the outbreak of the world war,the first industrial revolution era,and the Jewish identity,family environment,and their emotional personal lifebackground,have many close impacts with Kafka's existentialism.The third chapter mainly explains the theoretical origin of Kafka's existentialism,which is not only influenced by western philosophy,but also influenced by taoism.In the fourth chapter,the author elaborates the philosophical thought in his literary works,and makes a further study of his existentialism.On the basis of the fourth chapter,we will enter the fifth chapter,this chapter mainly elaborates the Kafka's realistic path of relief and problems inside his literary works..The sixth chapter analyzes Kafka's influence on literature,philosophy and reality,and explains the significance of the existentialism of Kafka.In conclusion,this paper is to make a systematic study of Kafka's existentialism,and elaborated the modern human' survival dilemma as a caution,and try to explore Kafka's rescure paths.
Keywords/Search Tags:Kafka, existential, dilemma of modernity, relief path
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